. The Australian zoologist. Zoology; Zoology; Zoology. WHITLEY. 407 Family Alepocephalidae. ROTJLEINA EUCLA, Sp. UOV. Aleposomus (Rouleina) squamilaterus McCulloch, Biol. Res. Endeavour, v., 4, June 8, 1926, p. 163, pi. xliv., fig. 1. Not Xenodermichthys squami- laterus Alcock, 1898, from off the Andaman Islands. A geographical species whose numerical features do not agree with the typical squamilaterus of Alcock. Proditor, gen. nov. Orthotype, Alepocephalus andersoni Fowler (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., lxxxv., 1933, p. 246, fig. 8) from the Philippines. I take this opportunity of supplying
. The Australian zoologist. Zoology; Zoology; Zoology. WHITLEY. 407 Family Alepocephalidae. ROTJLEINA EUCLA, Sp. UOV. Aleposomus (Rouleina) squamilaterus McCulloch, Biol. Res. Endeavour, v., 4, June 8, 1926, p. 163, pi. xliv., fig. 1. Not Xenodermichthys squami- laterus Alcock, 1898, from off the Andaman Islands. A geographical species whose numerical features do not agree with the typical squamilaterus of Alcock. Proditor, gen. nov. Orthotype, Alepocephalus andersoni Fowler (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., lxxxv., 1933, p. 246, fig. 8) from the Philippines. I take this opportunity of supplying a new generic name to replace Normania Parr (Bull. Bingham Oceanogr. Coll., iii., 7, August, 1937, p. 9), twice preoccupied. Proditor andersoni is extra-Australian. Family Gonostomatidae. Narooma benefica Whitley, 1935. (Fig. 15.) Narooma benefica Whitley, Rec. Austr. Mus., xix., 4, September 19, 1935, p. 215. Narooma, N'. Here figured from the GPW Fig. 15. Lantern Fish, Narooma benefica. Holotype. Narooma benefica is allied to the genera Poweria Bonaparte, 1840 (Vinciguerria of authors and of Norman's recent revision, Discov. Rept., ii., 1930, p. 290) and Zalarges Jordan & Starks, 1896. My species has a pair of small photophores at the mandibular sym- physis. Scales about 29. Family Plotosedae. Paraplotosus albilabris (Cuv. & Val., 1840). Plotosus albilabris Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xv., 1840, p. 427; ed. 2, p. 316. Batavia. Plotosus microceps Richardson, Zool. Voy. Erebus and Terror, Fish, 1845, p. 31, pi. xxi., figs. 4-7. coast of Australia. Copidoglanis longifilis Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. Wales, vi., 2, September 12, 1881, p. 207. Long Island, Torres Strait. Plotosus laticeps, Copidoglanis labiosus and labrosus, C. levis, and C. curtus Saville-Kent, Prelim. Rept. Food-Fish. Qld., 1889, p. 10; Great Barrier Reef, 1893, pp. 298 and 370. Queensland. Nomina nuda. A common catfish from Queensland (where I have collected it
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